Thesaurus:large
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: of considerable or relatively great size or extent
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- ample [⇒ thesaurus]
- big [⇒ thesaurus]
- bodacious
- broad
- commodious
- considerable
- expansive
- full
- generous [⇒ thesaurus]
- giant [⇒ thesaurus]
- grand
- great
- hefty
- hench (MLE)
- immense
- jumbo
- larger than life
- largifical (obsolete)
- leviathan
- long [⇒ thesaurus]
- massive
- mega-
- overlarge
- outsized
- oversize
- oversized
- prodigious
- roomy
- rotund
- sizeable
- spacious
- stonking (slang, Britain, Australia)
- tall [⇒ thesaurus]
- vast
- voluminous
- wide [⇒ thesaurus]
Antonyms
[edit]Sense: of exceedingly great size; very large
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- astronomic
- behemothic
- big fat
- Brobdingnagian
- bulky
- colossal
- cyclopean
- Daniel Lambertish
- elephantine
- elephantic
- enormous
- gargantuan
- giantesque
- gigantesque
- gigantic [⇒ thesaurus]
- ginormous (colloquial or slang)
- great big
- honkin'
- huge
- hulking
- humongous (slang)
- hunormous (colloquial or slang)
- immane (obsolete)
- mahoosive (chiefly Britain, humorous, slang)
- mammoth
- mastodonic
- monstrous [⇒ thesaurus]
- monumental
- mountainous
- pantagruelian
- pyramidal
- stupendous
- super-
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- whopping
- yuge
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “31. greatness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “192. size” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “large” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.